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Sep. 1st, 2021
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I like that he doesn't fit in any boxes — one of the primal scenes of the Hulk is the opening of Avengers #2, where Thor's ranting at him for being nearly naked in a meeting and the other Avengers are clearly disgusted by him. I actually see him as a countercultural figure, and right from the start he has that diegetic appeal to disaffected youth — Superman hangs out with straight-laced Jimmy Olsen, who at his very wildest is "kooky", while Hulk hangs out with Rick Jones, a juvenile delinquent who introduces himself by playing chicken with an atom bomb. -- Al Ewing
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Lucky Devil #1
Sep. 1st, 2021 11:00 amcyberghostface
"A down-on-his-luck schlub is possessed by a malevolent demon. Just when he thinks things can't get worse, the exorcism goes wrong . . . and he finds that somehow he's retained all of the entity's supernatural gifts. After a path of revenge on all the people that have wronged him, he begins to gather worshippers and form a cult.
But the legions of Hell don't take kindly to this, and they send demonic agents to murder the schlub-turned-god before he gains too much power." -- Dark Horse
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Not All Robots #1
Sep. 1st, 2021 07:22 pmhistory79
"That movement, where people were on Twitter using toxic masculinity to deny the existence of toxic masculinity, I thought, 'There's gotta be a really good metaphor for that.' Those dudes don't allow themselves to actually see what it is they're doing. And then it occurred to me that, if you recast the story with robots and then having humans resenting the robots, then it would work as a really good parable for toxic masculinity."
- Mark Russell
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Greg Pak made [Hercules] a serious player, but kept him fun. Dan Abnett made him get serious in himself, to the extent of having him stop drinking, which is the bell you can't really un-ring - that felt like a major foothold in the rock, in terms of cementing the character's evolution and preventing too much backsliding. But looking back at that series, he's still heavily motivated by other people's opinions of him. I wanted to break him free of that shell and spread his wings, to put him through the wringer and then have him cast off all his old insecurities and emerge as the best, coolest, sexiest, most secure version of himself - and then, as the cherry on top, send him into space in a cool new outfit to Flash Gordon his way around the universe and bring it all full circle. -- Al Ewing
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